Minoru Mori had a vision of building a city within the city of Tokyo, and after seventeen years with the help of some four hundred of Tokyo’s individual landowners, his vision was realized in 2003 Roppongi Hills is an eleven-hectare vertical city, and its centerpiece, the fifty-four story Mori Tower, can be seen from all over Tokyo

Aqua City, Venus Fort, and Rainbow Bridge While they may sound like the settings for the next big battle of 21st century superheroes, they are in actuality just three of the attractions which have made Tokyo’s Odaiba one of the city’s most frequented destinations

Although no one can predict exactly when, every spring thousands of Tokyo inhabitants will flock to their public parks to enjoy “hanami”, the viewing of the cherry blossoms The most popular of the city’s Cherry Blossom Festivals is at Ueno Park

One thing visitors to the Edo Japan Museum will learn is that when the Canadian representative signed Japan’s official surrender document following World War II, he did so on the wrong line The remaining signatories were therefore forced to replace the names of the countries on the following lines with the names of their own

By land and by sea, the Magic Kingdom and its gang of cartoon citizens have taken over Tokyo, first arriving when Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983, and completing their invasion when the seven Ports of Call at DisneySea welcomed their first visitors in 2001 Tokyo Disneyland Attractions Tokyo Disneyland is a replica of its sister US theme parks, Disneyland in Orange County, California, and Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida

If it weren’t for Snoopy, and the Mos Burger and Ganko Sushi restaurants along the road from the JR Universal City Station, visitors to Universal Studios Japan might think they had stepped out train of the onto the back lot of Universal Studios in Florida or Hollywood Universal Studios Japan Attractions The similarities between the parks are striking, with the same shark surging out of the water at Amity Pond, the same bicycle trip across the moon in the ET Adventure, the same Jurassic Park T-Rex chasing pathetic little rafts over a twenty-five foot waterfall, and of course, the same Amazing Adventures of Spiderman complete with a moving Statue of Liberty head

The largest amusement park in western Canada is Calaway Park, just outside Calgary, Alberta, Canada When the park opened in 1982, it was much smaller than its current site, but has grown as more land was purchased for the development of more children's and thrill rides

Spanning over 178 acres of land, the Forbidden City, or the Zijin Cheng is a major tourist attraction in Beijing Also known as the Imperial Palace, the building dates back around 500 years, though it was recently reopened for public after repairs in 1949

The unique visual theme park, aptly named Parc du Futuroscope, spans over 130 acres of land devoted to entertaining, and inadvertently educating, the millions of tourists that visit each year Built five miles north to the city of Poitiers, in France, Futuroscope was opened to public in 1987 and the park is celebrating 20 years of its existence in 2007

In a life that is dictated by routines, vacations and travelling is a thing that helps keep us sane The idea of taking annual leaves regularly makes a lot of sense